I am not protesting against the conduct of the war, but against the political errors and insincerities for which the fighting men are being sacrificed.
More Quotes from Siegfried Sassoon:
In the starkDanger of life at war, they lie so still,
All prostrate and defenceless, head by head.
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O thrilling sweet, my joy, when life was free
And all the paths led on from hawthorn-time
Across the carolling meadows into June.
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And life is just the picture dancing on a screen.
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Well, how are things in Heaven?
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I believe that the purpose for which I and my fellow soldiers entered upon this war should have been so clearly stated as to have made it impossible to change them, and that, had this been done, the objects which actuated us would now be attainable by negotiation.
Siegfried Sassoon
O Christ, and what's the good?
Siegfried Sassoon
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